This is good for anyone who came up against the limitations of SQLite or key-value stores. The fit between Realm and React Native looks to enable the native UI experience and cross platform functionality that helps to speed up development and make React Native developers’ lives easier.

Realm claims to be the fastest React Native database, with some of its benchmarks shown here.

It will be interesting to play around with Realm and see whether there’s a noticeable uptick when porting code.